Interesting Maps

yagan

What ever about having to factor in a half hour time diff I just can't get my head around 3/4!

josip

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124060072#Comment_124060072

You wouldn't have to get your head around it in reality. It's not legally recognised and is only used by roadhouses on the Nullarbor. As long as you've got daylight, there's nothing there to stop for. Apart from hitting a golf ball towards Antartica (didn't reach, found water :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTC%2B08%3A45

zell12

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124060072#Comment_124060072

Are you new here?

also Chatham Islands are legally UTC+12:45, summer +13:45, which makes sense

Shedite27

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124060072#Comment_124060072

Imagine living in Ireland pre 1916 and having to move your timepiece 25mns and 21 seconds

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTC%E2%88%9200%3A25%3A21

ohnonotgmail

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124061562#Comment_124061562

while this sounds odd i doubt it had any practical effect.

minggatu

The voyages of Christopher Columbus, 1492 to 1504

https://x.com/amazingmap/status/1998530912196395012

minggatu

The real value of the minimum wage in every country

https://www.moorepay.co.uk/the-ultimate-guide-to-global-minimum-wages/

Peregrinus

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124061980#Comment_124061980

It did, actually.

The orginal reason for having standard time throughout the country was to facilitate railways and their timetables, but this wasn't an issue as between Britain and Ireland, because of course there were no rail services across the Irish Sea. Hence Britain and ireland had different standard times.

But it did start to cause anomalies when telegraph services got going — the time a telegram was marked as received in London could be up to 25 minutes earlier than the time it was recorded as sent in Dublin. This wasn't really seen by anyone as a problem until the Easter Rising in 1916 led to a flurry of telegrams back and forth relaying and then correcting information, or sending and then countermanding orders about how to deal with the situation. Inconsistencies in the way the telegrams were time-stamped led to huge headaches when the official military reports were being prepared later on, analysing the events and the responses to them in detail. Did the people who sent this telegram at this time actually do so with the benefit of information contained in that telegram, apparently only sent to them at a later time? — that kind of thing. So in October 1916 they did awy with Dublin Mean Time and put the whole of the then UK on a single standard time.

OneEightSeven

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minggatu

The Gall Peters projection and its equal area approach to mapping

https://x.com/amazingmap/status/1999199246214660585

minggatu

The 9 Cosmonauts & 1 Astronaut Of The First 10 Countries To Send A Citizen To Space

Details https://brilliantmaps.com/first-in-space/

Capt'n Midnight

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124064905#Comment_124064905

Technically Alan Shepard's flight didn't achieve orbit. John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth the following year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_space_travel_by_nationality Romania and France had astronauts in space before the Americans started giving trips on their oversized shuttle.

OneEightSeven

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Capt'n Midnight

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joujoujou

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minggatu

Berlin or Bonn? Territorial Voting for Germany’s Capital in the 1991 Bundestag

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In 1991, the German Bundestag held a vote to determine the capital of a reunified Germany.

There were two options: Berlin and Bonn (the former capital of West Germany). The map shows the voting results of deputies elected from territorial constituencies. As can be seen, Bonn won in this group.

However, there were also deputies elected from party lists, and they preferred Berlin. Thanks to their votes, Berlin became the capital (the overall margin was just 2 votes(!) 491 to 489).

There was one more detail: six deputies elected from territorial constituencies skipped the vote.

Had they shown up, Germany’s capital today could very well have been Bonn. "

https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/1pi5s2l/berlin_or_bonn_territorial_voting_for_germanys/

Charles Babbage

a map of the transport when Berlin really was a capital

minggatu

Population distribution of Ireland in 1841 vs modern date

https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/1phcmro/population_distribution_of_ireland_in_1841_vs/

JupiterKid

Urban growth of Paris

JupiterKid

Dublin City Plan 1922

Note the geometric road layouts of planned new suburbs that later were developed in a different pattern as Marino, Crumlin, Clontarf, Cabra and a huge new area of reclaimed land from Dublin Bay from Sandymount out to Blackrock.

The principal rail lines are also highlighted.

JupiterKid

Ordnance Survey map of Navan town, 1911

JupiterKid

Areas in France where there are no inhabitants within a square kilometre.

Charles Babbage

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124061562#Comment_124061562

You didn't, you'd have had to move your clock by 34 mins and 39 seconds, as the change to London time occurred in October at the same time as Winter Time.

Markcheese

My dad remembers going to village in rural Limerick as a kid ,.. and they still ran on local time , set by the parish priest , but you had to know national time if you were going to kilmallock to get the train ,

minggatu

Ethnolinguistic groups of Austria Hungary in 1910

https://x.com/amazingmap/status/1999105361807380624

minggatu

The origins of the word 'Saturday' across European languages

https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/1plqkv8/the_origins_of_the_word_saturday_across_european/

OneEightSeven

Much like their gun violence rate, Americans are in league with the 3rd world with their cultural practices.

Shedite27

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124068190#Comment_124068190

Infill of land between the port and Clontarf also, there's a map on the new Greenway showing what was planned up there

Rawr

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124068190#Comment_124068190

Kind of interesting how the plan also re-aligns the City Center to focus on the new Central Station beside the Four Courts. Would probably have encouraged movement towards the middle of Dublin and away from the orbit of O’Connell Street.

minggatu

Native American Tribes

https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/1pk9iky/native_american_tribes/